World's Best Universities
Accounting and Finance
Accounting students gain skills to become accountants, financial managers, auditors, and more. Students who major in finance can pursue many career paths as well, including commercial banking and corporate finance. These are the world's top universities for accounting and finance. See the methodology.
| Rank | School | Overall Score | Academic Reputation Score | Employer Reputation Score | Citations per Paper Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #19 | 82.1 | 74.5 | 93.4 | 75.3 | |
| #7 |
University of Oxford
United Kingdom |
89.0 | 83.7 | 98.4 | 77.4 |
| #37 |
University of Toronto
Canada |
75.9 | 75.6 | 75.7 | 77.7 |
| #35 | 76.3 | 76.1 | 75.9 | 78.9 | |
| #36 |
Tsinghua University
China |
76.1 | 63.6 | 91.0 | 79.0 |
| #41 |
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Netherlands |
73.7 | 71.1 | 75.6 | 79.3 |
| #42 |
McGill University
Canada |
72.1 | 63.7 | 80.4 | 81.1 |
| #46 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
United States |
71.2 | 68.6 | 71.8 | 82.2 |
| #17 |
HEC Paris
France |
82.5 | 82.7 | 82.2 | 82.4 |
| #11 |
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
United States |
84.5 | 85.6 | 83.2 | 83.8 |
| #15 |
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States |
83.9 | 85.2 | 81.9 | 84.9 |
| #12 |
Yale University
United States |
84.4 | 81.9 | 87.3 | 84.9 |
| #4 |
Stanford University
United States |
91.6 | 92.4 | 92.1 | 85.2 |
| #31 |
Northwestern University
United States |
77.3 | 74.6 | 78.5 | 86.0 |
| #33 |
University of Michigan
United States |
76.6 | 76.6 | 74.0 | 86.5 |
| #33 |
University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)
United States |
76.6 | 76.3 | 74.1 | 87.9 |
| #30 |
Duke University
United States |
78.0 | 77.1 | 76.7 | 88.1 |
| #25 |
Princeton University
United States |
79.7 | 74.4 | 84.0 | 88.5 |
| #14 |
Columbia University
United States |
84.2 | 80.5 | 87.7 | 88.9 |
| #27 |
Cornell University
United States |
78.3 | 75.0 | 79.7 | 89.4 |
| #17 |
New York University (NYU)
United States |
82.5 | 82.6 | 80.7 | 89.5 |
| #3 |
London Business School
United Kingdom |
93.1 | 94.9 | 91.5 | 90.4 |
| #2 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States |
94.2 | 98.7 | 89.1 | 92.5 |
| #9 |
University of Chicago
United States |
87.7 | 90.0 | 83.4 | 93.8 |
| #1 |
Harvard University
United States |
99.8 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 97.8 |